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Is your Revenue decreased after the new rule?

A lot of my friends revenue is decreased. They were earning like $15/$20 perday but now they earn $1/$5 per day. And some of my friends have lost all of their revenue. They were earning from the "THUMBLIANED-ADS" but now theres no other way to attract user to click the ad. The CTR is decreased from 90&#37; to 5%

Its bad, because lots of people were earning from putting Thumbnails near ads and through that way people clicks the Ad mistakely

That is what the problem is. Imagine if you're paying to drive traffic to your site for each person that clicks to your site. I'd be mighty pissed if I was spending money for traffic which would leave my site once they found out they clicked on an ad while having no intentions doing so.

So many advertisers were getting screwed out of money from people clicking things they were basically tricked into.

Followed by said advertiser unchecking the content network box in their AdWords account, decreasing revenue for AdSense publishers. I for one bid less for AdSense clicks than search clicks on the campaigns I allow to show on content sites at all.

I think it was pretty inevitably that Google would have to put a stop to this. It's quite a clear case of publishers exploiting the carelessness of their visitors, which will ultimately have a negative effect on network wide click through rates.

Although I never used it, I'm sure the image thing was a great strategy for publishers while it lasted. Now that everyone does it, however, it's lost most of its initial effect, and isn't a decent solution for long-term revenue.